BY STEVE FLOWERS OPINION— The 2024 Legislative Session begins next week. It will be difficult to replicate the success of last year’s regular...
2024 Legislative session begins next week
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Steve Flowers Articles
The Race to Watch
BY STEVE FLOWERS OPINION— The most interesting race to watch this year in Alabama will be for the newly drawn second con-gressional district.The new...
2024 is an election year
BY STEVE FLOWERS OPINION— This is a presidential election year. Our GOP Presidential Primary is our election in the Heart of Dixie. We are a one...
More observations from 2023
BY STEVE FLOWERS OPINION — My notebook of observations from 2023 was so full that I will continue this week.Our new United States Senator, Katie...
Roger Bedford remembered
BY STEVE FLOWERS OPINION — As is my custom, my year-end column is devoted to acknowledging meaningful Alabama political leaders who passed away...
Sen. Katie Britt’samazing first year
BY STEVE FLOWERS OPINION — As Christmas approaches, Alabama’s Sen. Katie Britt prepares to mark one year in office. Those of us who have known her...
The legend ofSen. John Sparkman
OPINION — In my 2015 book, Of Goats and Governors: Six Decades of Colorful Alabama Political Stories, I have a chapter entitled “Alabama’s Three...
Inside the Statehouse
Lister Hill, a great Alabama senator OPINION— We had a very dist-inguished congressional delegation from Alabama during the 30-year span of...
Inside the Statehouse: Career politicians – Good or bad?
BY STEVE FLOWERS OPINION— In recent years, candidates for political office have lambasted, run against and proclaimed that they were not career...
